GAZE 2023

GAZE returns for its 31st edition, August 2nd - 7th 2023.

Join us in celebrating LGBTQIA+ films and filmmakers from around the world.

Multi-film package available: 3 films for €33, from the IFI Box Office or over the phone on (01) 679 3477.

Read more about GAZE International LGBTQIA+ Film Festival here: www.gaze.ie

GAZE: BARRIO BOY

It’s a hot and sultry New York summer. Handsome Latinx barber Quique comes from a super macho Brooklyn world where the men are men and barbershops like his are the…

Saturday 5th Aug 2023 20.30

GAZE: AEMI SHORTS: LUCID NOTIONS

2023 marks the fourth consecutive year of aemi and GAZE working together to present a programme of moving image work by artists and experimental filmmakers as part of the festival.…

Sunday 6th Aug 2023 13.00

GAZE: THE RESERVOIR

Get ready to fall in love with Lucas (played with irresistible charm by Renato Linhares), a quiet, ruggedly handsome, stoical man on a mission. As he crosses the country to…

Sunday 6th Aug 2023 15.30

GAZE: 20,000 SPECIES OF BEES

A young trans girl’s tentative steps towards self-realisation, and her attempts to make her family recognise who she already knows she is, are sensitively traced in Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s stunning…

Sunday 6th Aug 2023 17.50

GAZE: SOMETHING YOU SAID LAST NIGHT

As a young trans woman named Ren (Carmen Madonia) anxiously slips into a rest stop bathroom, our shoulders hike with fear for her; but Ren is only nervous because she…

Sunday 6th Aug 2023 20.45

GAZE: WHO I AM NOT

Intersex representation has reached a new milestone with this enthralling documentary by Tünde Skovrán. Focusing on two individuals with vastly different experiences who both identify as intersex, the film sheds…

Monday 7th Aug 2023 15.30

Kokomo City is a trans-made cinematic venture that follows the lives of a group of charismatic Black transgender women in America as they navigate life, sex work, romance, bodily autonomy and…

Friday 11th Aug 2023 16.10 Saturday 12th Aug 2023 19.15 Sunday 13th Aug 2023 13.10 Monday 14th Aug 2023 18.20 Tuesday 8th Aug 2023 16.20 | 20.50 Wednesday 9th Aug 2023 16.10 | 18.40 Thursday 10th Aug 2023 13.50 | 18.10 Tuesday 15th Aug 2023 13.50 Thursday 17th Aug 2023 16.30